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Youth health & wellbeing

When we’re sick, we visit a doctor. We have access to affordable medicines; clean drinking water is available to us at the turn of a tap, and nutritious food is plentiful. In fact, we probably can’t imagine what it would be like to go without these things. But millions of people in poor countries live without them, every single day. A fact that leads to millions of preventable deaths every year.

BEST LINKS

Youthbeyondblue: understand mental health through good and bad days. Help, information and videos. Take the Brain Quiz.

Tassie Teen is a health portal specifically for Tasmanian youth. Click on the “Blogs’ tab for detailed information on a variety of topics.

Red Aware: a great site to find information and resources on sexual health, including links to Tasmanian support.

Go to Lawstuff for legal information. Find out your rights in relation to where you live in Australia.

Reach Out: work out the hard stuff and improve your everyday life. The site includes fact sheets, personal stories and links to helpful apps, such as Smiling Mind, a modern meditation app designed to assist people in dealing with the pressure, stress and challenges of daily life.

Rosie is a website for girls. It has a range of tips, links and videos all centred around a theme of respect – for body & mind, work & study, relationships, and the world we live in.

Sane Australia: information and support on mental illness, grief, helping your friends. There are videos and forums too.

Headspace: tips and articles regarding physical and mental health to help you have a healthy headspace, as well as first hand stories. Confidential online and telephone support is offered.

Tune In Not Out: a one-stop shop for information on life’s challenges. Explore videos, stories and fact sheets.

Butterfly Foundation: fact sheets, tips and articles on body image and eating disorders. A support service (phone or email) is also provided.

Child and Youth Health: brief information for teenagers on just about any health topic you could think of, with links to further material. Get the “Naked Truth” app (South Australian laws).

No Smokes: with a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, this site has facts about smoking, blogs to read and music to listen to. Find out the dollar and health costs of smoking.

Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 3 – Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Here you’ll find facts and figures, Goal 3 targets and links to further information on global health.

A Tale of Two Mothers: two South African mothers try to get their child vaccinated and are met with different outcomes, illustrating unequal access to immunisation services. This 2.5 minute video is produced by UNICEF.

Mapping Worlds: learn about the world by changing the familiar map. Select a subject and watch the map resize according to the statistics.